Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/immich-app/immich/vs/parse-community/parse-server
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/immich-app/immich/vs/parse-community/parse-server.md
Description: immich and parse-server share 4 technologies: Express, Redis, yaml, and jsonwebtoken. immich is written in TypeScript and parse-server in JavaScript.

# immich vs parse-server

immich and parse-server share 4 technologies: Express, Redis, yaml, and jsonwebtoken. immich is written in TypeScript and parse-server in JavaScript.

- [immich-app/immich](https://seerepo.com/r/immich-app/immich): High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.
- [parse-community/parse-server](https://seerepo.com/r/parse-community/parse-server): Parse Server for Node.js / Express

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Express, Redis, yaml, jsonwebtoken
- Only in immich: Flutter, Jetpack Compose, FastAPI, SQLite, Hugging Face, lifecycle-runtime-ktx, uvicorn, React, @nestjs/core, @nestjs/bullmq, Postgres, bullmq, @opentelemetry/instrumentation-ioredis, NestJS, Svelte, SvelteKit, Vite, dynamic_color, material_color_utilities, com.google.android.material:material, scrollable_positioned_list, fluttertoast, Glance, Rich, ONNX, rapidocr, tokenizers, Glide, pillow, image_picker, flutter_svg, Pydantic, Fastlane, logging, Gunicorn, cli-progress, Tailwind CSS, kysely, nestjs-kysely, kysely-postgres-js, jose, @simplewebauthn/server, helmet, bcrypt, openid-client, react-email, sanitize-filename, sharp, handlebars, js-yaml, nodemailer, pngjs, thumbhash, Zod, validator, opentelemetry, tailwind-variants, tailwind-merge, media-chrome, fabric, MapLibre, svelte-confetti, uplot, Simple Icons, @simplewebauthn/browser, qrcode
- Only in parse-server: lru-cache, @apollo/server, @as-integrations/express5, jwks-rsa, bcryptjs, otpauth, mustache, winston, winston-daily-rotate-file

## Side by side

| | immich | parse-server |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 329,240 lines written, 1,940 code files | 185,805 lines written, 221 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.1% of its commits signed by AI. With GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and Jules | 0.1% of its commits signed by AI. With GitHub Copilot |
| Activity | Last push November 5, 2026, 11,392 commits, 118,280 stars | Last push November 5, 2026, 5,276 commits, 21,393 stars |
| Tests | 538 test files. 26% of its code files have a test that imports them | 144 test files. 5% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, immich or parse-server?

immich, with 329,240 lines written; parse-server has 185,805.

The proof: [immich-app/immich's code at commit 0fe21a3](https://github.com/immich-app/immich/tree/0fe21a3e0c980be1549ec22304bac09c034fda93)

### Which has more GitHub stars, immich or parse-server?

immich, with 118,280 stars; parse-server has 21,393.

The proof: [immich-app/immich on GitHub](https://github.com/immich-app/immich)

### Which has more tests, immich or parse-server?

immich, with 538 test files; parse-server has 144.

The proof: [immich-app/immich's code at commit 0fe21a3](https://github.com/immich-app/immich/tree/0fe21a3e0c980be1549ec22304bac09c034fda93)

### Which was updated more recently, immich or parse-server?

Both got their last push on November 5, 2026.

The proof: [immich-app/immich's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/immich-app/immich/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, immich or parse-server?

In both, an AI signed 0.1% of their commits.

## Sources

- immich-app/immich: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit 0fe21a3 (https://github.com/immich-app/immich/tree/0fe21a3e0c980be1549ec22304bac09c034fda93)
- parse-community/parse-server: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit 69d7f1c (https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/tree/69d7f1c53598ba76ba4c9ce320d6799b00bfca24)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.